What is New and Exciting in Power BI, Power BI Visuals in R and ESRI Deep Dive Webinars Dec 8, 13 and 15

What is new and exciting in Power BI

With weekly and monthly releases, there are a lot of fantastic new features to explore in Power BI. In this session, we will review what's been released lately, including the new collaboration features in the cloud-based service, the new authoring and modeling features of Power BI Desktop, extending your reach to mobile applications, new Power BI resources, and finally what's new for developers leveraging the Power BI platform.

We're also going to try something new and exciting: fielding all the question as an AMA on the community site. This way not only will you get to see all the questions that everybody asks, but also there will be a historical log of the answers that you can easily go back and refer to later!

About the presenter

Charles Sterling came to Microsoft from being a marine biologist working for United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research on the Bering Sea. He started out at Microsoft supporting Excel and moved through a couple of support teams to being an escalation engineer for Microsoft SQL Server. Taking his love for customers (and diving), Chuck moved to Australia as a product manager and developer evangelist for the .NET Framework. In 2008 he moved back to Redmond as the Visual Studio community program manager and just recently moved to the Power BI team to continue his community passion and looking after the Power BI influencers and MVPs.

Deep Dive into the ArcGIS Maps for Power BI by Esri

ArcGIS Maps for Power BI offers enhanced mapping capability, demographic data, and even more compelling map visualizations so you can tell your best story. In this webinar, the Development team from ESRI will join up with the Microsoft Power Team to do a deep dive on how to use the ArcGIS Maps for Power BI, some best practices, and what the future will bring in exciting new area.

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Extending Power BI with R Visuals by Ginger Grant

With R Script you can create some amazingly sophisticated visuals, leverage a huge and growing library of visuals written in R, and customize those existing libraries to solve your business needs. In this webinar, Microsoft MVP Ginger Grant, will show you how to get started with R Visuals, including getting started from scratch and leverage existing libraries to visualize your Power BI data.

About the presenter

Ginger has years of experience with many versions of SQL server as an MCSA on a variety of different projects for industries including vehicle telemetry systems, construction materials distribution, call center routing, financial services, healthcare management and insurance processing. Ginger is continuing her SQL Server experience as consultant for Pragmatic Works. When not working, she can be found speaking at the Arizona SQL Server Users Group, PASS Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter, SQL Saturdays and Desert Code Camp.